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Saturday, December 2, 2017

The SPLC’s Impoverished Mind

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a
kind of honorary member of the “Swamp,” and of the “Deep State.” Its board of
directors is comprised of Progressive bobbleheads. While it purports
to identify “hate speech” (see my recent column, “A Lexicon
for Our Time,” for a discussion of the invalidity of the term hate speech) and “hate groups,” it is
itself a promulgator of the former thus making it automatically a member of the
latter.

“Hate speech is free speech
that hurts people’s feelings.” Pat
Condell agrees and describes what’s happening in Britain, which is the government’s
totalitarian yen for Sharia. “Hate crime” depends on a subjective perception of
what is said or written or done. It could be anything from a virulent
defamation of Islam on a soapbox or the Internet, to the twirly shape of the
top of a Burger
King ice cream cone. If the twirl is “offensive” and resembles an Islamic symbol,
you’re guilty of “hate speech” and, depending on a prosecutor’s fervor, you
will be charged with a “hate crime.” Evidence of “hate speech” or a “hate crime”
depends solely on someone’s “feelings” or claim of hurt feelings.

The SPLC has all the
credibility of Robert
Mueller, Special Counsel, whose mandate is to remove Donald Trump from
office by hook, crook, or impeachment. His purpose is to find prosecutable dirt
on Trump. However, he is sweeping madly for Russian
dust bunnies in a spotless hospital operating room.

The SPLC is Antifa
without hoods, masks, or bicycle locks. It has issued its own fatwas
on any one or any organization it has subjectively deemed “hateful," that is,
its primary target is to scuttle freedom
of speech and to silence anyone’s freedom of speech, especially about Islam.
It commits slander, libel, or smears in conjunction with a willing and
copasetic Mainstream Media (MSM), which is lured by its often ludicrous designations
to fresh meat like a “Walker”
or zombie in The Walking Dead. (Walker:
“The reanimated corpse of a human being that has regained limited function and
mobility, as well as developed an insatiable hunger for flesh.” An apt
description which fits the MSM, as well! Walkers, or the MSM, have demonstrated
a hunger for humans, pigs, dogs, horses, and even
tigers. Tigresses like Pamela
Geller, who, though surrounded by the baying and growling MSM, will not be brought down. Read FATWA,
and learn why not.)

The MSM has confirmed
by consensus and by a kneejerk reference to the discredited SPLC that Geller, together
with everyone else on its “anti-Muslim
hit list is “anti-Muslim,” even though she has said numerous times that she
is not “anti-Muslim.”

Like Frankenstein’s
monster, the SPLC has become a malevolent agent for
“change” and social
“transformation.”

By the late 1960s, the civil rights
movement had ushered in the promise of racial equality as new federal laws and
decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court ended Jim Crow segregation. But resistance
was strong, and these laws had not yet brought the fundamental changes needed
in the South….

The lawyers (Joe Levin and Martin
Dees) formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian
Bond was named the first president. Dees and Levin began seeking nationwide
support for their work. People from across the country responded with
generosity, establishing a sound financial base for the new organization.

In the decades since its founding,
the SPLC shut down some of the nation’s most violent white supremacist groups
by winning crushing, multimillion-dollar jury verdicts on behalf of their
victims. It dismantled vestiges of Jim Crow, reformed juvenile justice
practices, shattered barriers to equality for women, children, the LGBT
community and the disabled, protected low-wage immigrant workers from
exploitation, and more….

In the 1980s, the SPLC began
monitoring white supremacist activity amid a resurgence of the Klan and today
its Intelligence Project is internationally known for tracking and exposing a
wide variety of hate and extremist organizations throughout the United States.

Dees founded
the SPLC in 1971, after the civil rights battle had been won and there was no
money left in representing KKK-like groups. He then jumped to the other side of
the fence, masquerading as a “civil rights organization dedicated to fighting
hate and bigotry, and seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of
society.”

The
Eye of the Tiger, also known as Pamela Geller.

The SPLC developed the
practice of lumping legitimate organizations and individuals, such as Jihad Watch, Brigitte
Gabrieland
ACT, Pamela
Geller, and Steve
Emerson’s IPT, among many others, with the most repellant and genuinely
“hateful” organizations, such as the KKK and the Aryan
Nation, as “hate groups.” This was and continues to be a strategy to defame
and delegitimize Geller et al. The SPLC’s “Intelligence Project”
is about as bizarrely skewed and lopsided as a Vegan smorgasbord featuring Halal meat. It
rarely takes to task haters and enemies of freedom of speech such as Google,
Facebook, and Twitter, and merely slaps their wrists in contradistinction
to its consistently vicious attacks on Geller, Spencer, Emerson and others, who
warn about the totalitarian nature of Islam and its inroads in Western and especially
American culture.

In December, all three companies,
together with Microsoft, announced an ambitious plan to curb the online spread
of extremism through the creation of a joint industry database of “content that
promotes terrorism” — a move that has been widely interpreted to mean that the
companies will focus on propaganda created by jihadist terrorist groups like
the Islamic State. Yet when it comes to tackling right-wing extremist content
and hate speech, the companies seem mysteriously helpless.

Twitter is probably the worst
offender: Despite explicitly banning “accounts whose primary purpose is
inciting harm towards others on the basis of these categories,” it has done
remarkably little in the way of enforcement. In late November, it won applause
from progressives when it strengthened reporting tools and banned numerous
“alternative right” accounts that pumped out racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim
and misogynistic content, most notably that of prominent white nationalist
leader Richard Spencer [no relation to Robert; my brackets].

But in December, [Robert] Spencer’s
account was back up, and it emerged that Twitter had only banned him for
violating a policy that prohibits individuals from running multiple accounts
with overlapping uses. (The social media platform has not restored the account
of Milo
Yiannopoulos, an Alt-Right “troll” whose vicious online attacks even
Spencer acknowledged as “harassment.”) [I was not able to verify this, though
given the SPLC’s penchant for manufacturing its own “fake news,” it is likely apocryphal.]

Though always left of center, the
Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) once had a reputation as a
fairly objective civil rights group. Founded by direct-marketing millionaire
Morris Dees and partner Joseph Levin Jr. in 1971, the SPLC made important and
honorable contributions to many of the historic civil rights gains of the 20th
Century. According to its own materials, the SPLC was “internationally known
for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups.”

Alas, “power corrupts,” as it goes,
and the SPLC, having amassed tremendous power and wealth over the years, has
regrettably become corrupt to its core. By way of an ever-escalating wave of
“us-versus-them” money-grubbing schemes, Today’s SPLC has morphed into a
far-left political activist outfit, famous for promoting a panoply of extreme
liberal causes….

“The American Institute of
Philanthropy gives the Center one of the worst ratings of any group it
monitors,” continued Silverstein. “Morris Dees doesn't need your financial
support. The SPLC is already the wealthiest civil rights group in America,
though [its fundraising literature] quite naturally omits that fact. … ‘Morris
and I...shared the overriding purpose of making a pile of money,’ recalls
Dees’s business partner, a lawyer named Millard Fuller (not to be confused with
Millard Farmer). ‘We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to
be independently rich.’”...

So, what happens when a dragon slayer
– paid per dragon head – runs out of real dragons to slay? Well, he invents new
ones, of course. Gotta keep those sprinklers-a-sprinklin.’ (According to Harper’s,
“Dees bought a 200-acre estate appointed with tennis courts, a pool, and
stables.” SPLC’s 2008 Form-990 shows net assets of over $219 million at the
beginning of that year. Yup, there’s a spate to be made in the hate trade.)

“The Ku Klux Klan, the SPLC’s most
lucrative nemesis, has shrunk from 4 million members in the 1920s to an
estimated 2,000 today [year 2000], as many as 10 percent of whom are thought to
be FBI informants. But news of a declining Klan does not make for inclining
donations to Morris Dees and Co., which is why the SPLC honors nearly every
nationally covered ‘hate crime’ with direct-mail alarums full of nightmarish
invocations of ‘armed Klan paramilitary forces’ and ‘violent neo-Nazi
extremists…’”

happening in Britain, which
is the government’s totalitarian yen for Sharia. “Hate crime” depends on a
subjective perception of what is said or written or done. It could be anything from
a virulent defamation of Islam on a soapbox or the Internet, to the twirly shape
of the top of a Burger
King ice cream cone. If the twirl is “offensive” and resembles an Islamic symbol,
you’re guilty of “hate speech” and, depending on a prosecutor’s fervor, you
will be charged with a “hate crime.” Evidence of “hate speech” or a “hate crime”
depends solely on someone’s “feelings” or claim of hurt feelings.

The SPLC has
multi-million dollar accounts in the Bahamas, but
George Soros felt it necessary to award it more funds to send to its Cayman
Island accts. So, “Don’t be misled by their name, SPLC is anything but
poverty stricken as their coffers are overflowing with more than $350 million.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, when it comes to anyone discussing the
perils of Islam, constantly displays a poverty of the mind and a blatant
hostility to freedom of speech and to truth. But, then, that is the hallmark of
any leftist. Sympathetic to totalitarianism, the Left is in a natural alliance
with Islam.

2 comments:

Carrie Nation, pictured in the column, could be said to have been the first Antifa terrorist. Her policy was to attack and destroy whatever she didn't like. In this case, liquor and saloons. And she wore black, too.

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